The further and continuing adventures of the girl who sat in the back of your homeroom, reading and daydreaming.

Monday, August 16, 2010

Punday?

With no disrespect meant-- Say you're a female who is in a religious order, and you spend all day, every day pondering the nature of the Deity. Can you, in good conscience, list your profession on a 1040 tax form as "Nun of the Above?"

"I saw to what extent the people among whom I lived could be trusted as good neighbors and friends; that their friendship was for summer weather only; that they did not greatly propose to do right; that they were a distinct race from me by their prejudices and superstitions."